At that moment, Zhang Moyan felt disoriented and confused. The heavy information hit her head so hard that her face turned pale and her body swayed.
No wonder Huang Qin said she didn’t want to see her again, and no wonder she said Zhang Shihan was her daughter who died unjustly.
"This isn't true," Zhang Moyan panicked for a moment before suddenly stepping forward and grabbing Chen Guanfu's collar, sternly demanding, "Don't try to deceive me! This is all a lie you deliberately fabricated to disown the Zhang family and me! You're so cunning! To sabotage my relationship with them, you came up with such a vicious and cruel story! That's someone else's daughter, and you're saying she was killed by mistake, that the murderer's real target was their adopted daughter, whom they'd dedicated over twenty years to raising... Are you still human? Do you have any conscience left?"
Zhang Moyan's eyes flushed red, and her hands, clutching Chen Guanfu's clothes, were shaking from the cold. Fujiwara Nanako quickly called out, "Don't do this, sir, your legs are just right," stopping Zhang Moyan and separating them.
Chen Guanfu's collar had been pulled askew, but he still stood straight. Zhang Moyan's heart-wrenching finger-pointing was as insignificant to him as an ant crawling by.
"No one in the world hopes that these are all false more than I do. Could the pain of losing your beloved daughter be less than the pain of losing your adoptive parents?" Chen Guanfu said without a trace of expression.
Zhang Moyan immediately said, "Did you treat her like a daughter when you asked her to carry out those secret missions? Wasn't she just a tool for you to implement your actions to achieve your personal goals? Well, she finally died in your deployment. Now you say she was your beloved daughter. Don't you feel guilty?"
"Miss Zhang!"
Fujiwara Nanako interrupted Zhang Moyan's aggressive questioning. After a moment of calming down, she spoke earnestly, "How can you blame Mr. Chen like this? Miss Chen and Mr. Chen have always shared the same ideals. Perhaps you didn't know their backgrounds, so you can't understand their sense of responsibility, but please believe that Mr. Chen never treated his daughter as a tool. It's so heartbreaking for you to say that to him."
"Can't I blame him?" Zhang Moyan laughed. "Because I don't know my own life story, I don't have the same sense of responsibility as them. Doesn't this prove that the so-called sense of responsibility is something he imposed on his daughter?"
Fujiwara Nanako was speechless.
Zhang Moyan then turned to Chen Guanfu, her eyes burning. "If, as you say, you love your daughter, then I'd like to ask, do you regret this outcome?"
Chen Guanfu's expression finally changed. He looked back at Zhang Moyan with complicated eyes, and after a moment of silence, he sighed, "We have no choice."
He paused and continued, "I understand it's hard for you to accept what I've told you today, but that's the truth, and there's nothing we can do about it. If you don't believe it, you can spend more time and energy investigating it yourself, but the end result will be the same as what I told you."
Zhang Moyan froze in shock and took a half step back. The "川" character between his eyebrows trembled faintly under his paper-white skin.
Her intuition told her that what Chen Guanfu said was true, because there were only two possibilities for someone like Chen Guanfu to say such a thing: one was that the truth was indeed the case, and the other was that he had spread the lie to the point where absolutely no one could find any flaws.
But Zhang Moyan knew very well that no matter how capable Chen Guanfu was, he could not create her memories.
Yes, she was really kidnapped as a child.
And Chen Yun did not come to save her.
Chen Guanfu had no way of knowing those dark memories, but they all fit in with what he had just said.
…
Zhang Moyan felt her head was in a mess.
This sudden cause and effect was so unexpected.
I felt so powerless and weak, as if I could only endure it. This was the first time Zhang Moyan felt this way about herself.
After a long pause, she let out a bitter laugh. "You've lost your daughter and are getting very old, so now you want to drag me into this, right? You've disregarded the consequences and forced the Zhang family to sever ties with me. Your next move is to tame me and make me share your path, right?"
"Ms. Zhang," Fujiwara Nanako said with a look of sorrow in her eyes, "Do you really have to be so confrontational?"
But no one paid attention to what she said.
The air was quiet for a while, and Chen Guanfu said, "Fujiwara, please go out for a while!"
Fujiwara Nanako looked very surprised, but she was only surprised for 2 seconds, then she agreed and obediently turned around and walked out the door.
Only after Fujiwara Nanako's figure disappeared beyond the French windows did Chen Guanfu speak again, his tone still steady: "If I said 'no', you wouldn't believe me, right?"
He was answering Zhang Moyan's question.
Zhang Moyan raised her head, forcing back the tears that threatened to overflow. She sniffed and looked at Chen Guanfu again, pleading, "Can you please just give me a way out? ... I'm just an ordinary person. I don't want to contribute anything to the world of azure porcelain. Can you just pretend you don't know me? Disappear from my world and let me live an ordinary life?"
Chen Guanfu said: "You can stop making celadon porcelain, but you can't leave me."
His tone was serious and he would not tolerate any objection.
"Why?" Zhang Moyan asked.
Chen Guanfu moved his lips, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself.
Zhang Moyan pressed on, "Since I don't have to make celadon porcelain, what's the point of me staying with you? Do you think we can still develop any feelings after you've hurt me so much? Can you still expect me to be by your side, to be filial to you and to take care of you until the end of your life?"
Chen Guanfu frowned and said, "You don't have to say this specifically. I don't care."
Zhang Moyan took a deep breath with difficulty and said nothing.
"I don't need you to be filial to me." Chen Guanfu's voice seemed to drop several degrees suddenly, and suddenly people felt that what he was going to say next was very serious.
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